FTP:  FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL

Transfer files from/to your website using FTP

Suppose your website username is yourusername

  1. Open My Computer
  2. Go to the web address

    ftp://yourusername@ftp.batstar.net

  3. When the dialogue box comes up, put in your username and password
  4. This should give you a display of the files in your account, in the “My Computer” fashion
  5. Using “My Computer” find the file(s) you wish to upload (or the folder where you want to download)
  6. To move files back and forth
    1. Open your own “web” folder in a separate copy of “My Computer”
    2. Copy the files from your “web” folder and paste them in the “FTP web version”
    3. Or, to download, copy from the web and paste them to your folder

NOTE  To work on a file, you need to do it on your computer. The traffic back and forth with the website brings the files back and forth to your workspace. You can't work on a file while it is on your website! You must download it, work on it, then upload the result (and overwrite what's there)